Life
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February 13 1883
Around three in the afternoon, one hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, Dr. Friedrich Keppler established that the great master did not survive a heart attack. Friedrich Nietzsche completed the first part of his Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the “sacred hour of Wagner’s death”. After reading the news in the papers the next morning, he…
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Significance
On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths chafing against the dictates of society and weary elders who just wanted to be left in peace; chest…
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All is a Belief
The very moment I appear in the mirrornakedclothed nakedprotectedor when I feel clothed or naked without mirroringthe invitation comes to doubt what I can touch and notI question how much I am, and how much I am nothow much I movehow much I am in an illusion of movementThe very second I grow in questions…
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45ml or Love is Chemistry or Only Love will lead to Coffee
The only thing I find odd in classical music, although I am not against the idea, is the fact that in the large spectrum of concerti, symphonies and studies, the very least of them have a title to match, carry or introduce the composed material. Titles fascinate me. Titles for paintings will at times complete…
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Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, Schubert
Today I continue to celebrate life in details but also in the joy that adds two men to the spirit of celebratory thankfulness — music. Besides the birthday of Philip Glass, there is plenty of reason for celebrating two hundred and twenty-four years today. Franz Peter Schubert, the young man who composed the “Winterreise” (Winter…
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Celebration Day — thirty-one
No other composer, no public figure has ever played consequential roles in my life like Phillip Glass. It all began with a physical, mental, perhaps even spiritual shock in 1982, when I sat in Carnegie Hall and experienced his music for the first time. That year I moved to Boston, where, not long after that,…
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Personal Lexicon — perfection
The most physically energizing, soulfully inspiring, and mentally exciting, is the life without aspiring perfection. Sila Blume
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Personal Lexicon
I intend to inhale, apply, and exhale love as love is, not as we define it. Sila Blume
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Celebration Day — twenty-nine
A memory becomes a celebration once it is unified with the present just what a memory is …like putting some gentle oil on my face for protection from the cold and winds that await me outside today; the same action which reminds me repeatedly of his mother doing the same on my son’s beautiful and…
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Celebration Day — twenty-eight
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it. John Cage (1912-1992), US-American Composer
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of god
I read flight inducing novelsreferences from her story and historyconverse with creative scientistswith devoted believerspartake of fruit juices released by treesof juices of flyers, walkers, swimmersI have struckheld backsmiled and criedhave learnedhave forgottenhave recalledhave lived aplenty, and lives aplentyOneness is all grandmajuscule grand, minuscule grandWill god ever take place?
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You have to believe in yourself…
You have to believe in yourself. If not, change profession. Rodion Shchedrin (*1932) in conversation with Martha Argerich in 2011, during a rehearsal of “Romantic Offering” — double concerto for piano, violoncello, and orchestra — with Argerich (piano), and Mischa Maisky (cello).
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Celebration Day — twenty-seven
Celebration and gratitude have different faces, and a celebration is based on gratitudes. This spontaneous Celebration Day Series idea arose as the mere fruit of finding more and more reasons and results in celebrating the joys of life — that which has been, is, and will somehow perpetuate for as long as it inhabits and…
Sila Blume 